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A cheeseshop sketch, about the Cheeseshop #8

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glasnt opened this issue May 16, 2018 · 14 comments
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A cheeseshop sketch, about the Cheeseshop #8

glasnt opened this issue May 16, 2018 · 14 comments

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@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 16, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPN3KTtrnZM
https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop

Without the ending of the original, of course.

@alexwlchan
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I was thinking a Cheeseshop AU, a la Coffee shop, whose owners are sick to the back teeth of people quoting the sketch at them.

(It’s been years since I wrote fiction, so that’s an idea, not an offer!)

@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 16, 2018

OMG.

Now I'm having ideas about not just that sketch, but quoting back every Monty Python reference. "Because Python! It's Funny!"

@alexwlchan
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Or alternatively, a Cheeseshop that has plenty of cheese, but somebody has heard “you get your Python packages from the Cheeseshop”, and misunderstood how it works.

Customer: “Do you have requests?”
Shopkeeper: “No, we take requests… this is a Cheeseshop.”
C: “Yes, yes, I know that. Okay, so no requests.”
S, interjecting: “If there’s something specific you’d like, we can order it for you?”
C: [confused]

Also:

  • Jinja2, and the shopkeeper gives them two sticks of ginger (a la the Two Ronnies)
  • six (“six of what”?)
  • mock (“are you mocking me, (honorific)?”)

Ideally you’d find at least a couple of packages whose names sound like real cheeses, but it’s too early for me to think of those right now.

@alexwlchan
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Okay, this idea is kinda tempting now.

/o\

@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 16, 2018

"You know, requests!"
'For.. who'
"For humans?"
'We aren't that sort of shop, SIR'

"What about pillow?"
'YOU'RE getting tired?!'

"Twisted?"
'You think!?'

@alexwlchan
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“Celery?”
“It goes nicely with cheese, sir, but we don’t sell it here”

“Pandas?”
“May I ask what you’re planning to do, sir?”

@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 16, 2018

"It's dangerous?"
"Well I'm glad we agree on something!"

@alexwlchan
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Surely there’s something about pickles.

Also, the shopkeeper is so proud, because they’ve just got a delivery of different cheeses, and keep trying to sell them something, anything.

@alexwlchan
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The shopkeeper finally gets them to buy a wheel of cheese, just to get them out of the shop.

S: “Okay, let me just find the paper and twine, so I can wrap it for you.”
C: “You have twine? Great, that’s on my list too!”
S: “You came HERE to buy TWINE?”

@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 16, 2018

This is sounding so very amazing! 🧀

@alexwlchan
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alexwlchan commented May 16, 2018

Person: *is reading book about Python*
P: “It says ‘The first thing to do when using Python is to get some good packages. You can get your packages from the Cheeseshop.’ There are plenty of cheeseshops near me! I didn’t realise Python was so popular!”

WHAT HAVE I DONE.

Would this work best as a script, or maybe a series of small vignettes? I’m thinking a couple of packages at a time, interspersed with illustrations of the shopkeeper getting more and more frustrated.

Also, I want the simpleton customer to be a man, and the shopkeeper to be visibly non-male. And the shop is dressed the same way as in the Monty Python sketch, but with a background sign “Under new management”, because by jove did they need it. Bonus points if the illustrator slips in a nod towards the new Warehouse theme.

@alexwlchan
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(Let’s reflect on the fact that in 23 minutes, I’ve gone from “this is an idea I definitely can’t do” to “I have a Git repo, a notes file with 50 lines, the scope is now three times bigger than what we started with, and I’m making picky requirements of the illustrator I’ve just invented”. Is this what product management is like? 🧀 )

@thursdayb
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This development process feels very on brand for us.

Also, I have some ideas for where we can find the illustrator. :)

@glasnt
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glasnt commented May 25, 2018

Do you have a bottle?
Well I need a drink...

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